Required Courses for Women and Gender Studies Area Studies Certificate Students and Minors:
WGS 1010 - Introduction to Women and Gender Studies (BSS)
Elective Courses for Women and Gender Studies Area Studies Certificate Students (21 Credits) and Minors (15 Credits):
ANTH 1010 Cultural Anthropology (BSS)
ART 2810 Photography
* ENGL 3325 18th Century British Literature
ENGL 3510 Young Adult Literature
ENGL 3520 Multicultural American Literature
* ENGL 4300 Shakespeare
* ENGL 4370 Studies in Nonfiction Prose
ENGR 1940 Women in Engineering Seminar
FCHD 1010 Balancing Work and Family (BSS)
FCHD 1500 Human Development Across the Lifespan (BSS)
FCHD 2400 Marriage and Family Relationships (BSS)
FCHD 2450 Consumer and the Market
FCHD 3100 Abuse/Neglect
FCHD 3110 Human Sexuality
FCHD 3210 Family and Cultural Diversity (CI)
FCHD 3350 Family Finance (DSS)
FCSE 3080 Dress and Humanity (DHA)
HEP 4500 Sexuality Education with the Schools
HEP 5000 Race, Culture, Class, and Gender Issues in Health (CI)
HIST/RELS 3020 Introduction to Hinduism
HIST 3630 History of Modern Atlantic America
HIST 3670 Slavery in the Atlantic World
HIST/RELS 4010 Buddhism in the West
HIST/WGS 4550 Women and Gender in America (DHA/CI)
HIST/RELS 4560 Women in Islam
HIST 4630 The History of Mexican Americans
JCOM 3410 Film as Cultural Communication: Women, Feminism, and Film (DSS)
JCOM 4400/6400 Mass Media Criticism
JCOM/WGS 4410/6410 Gender and the Mass Media
PE 1407 Rape and Aggression Defense
PE 3000 Dynamic Fitness, Gender Focus
PHYS 1200 Introduction to Physics by Hands-on Exploration (BPS)
PSY 3120 Abuse and Neglect and the Psychological Dimensions of Intimate Violence
PSY 4230 Psychology of Gender (DSS)
SOC 2370 Sociology of Gender
SOC 3010 Social Inequality
SOC 5650 Developing Societies
SPAN 3630 Survey of Latin American Literature II (DHA)
SPAN 4900 Topic of Spanish Literature,
SPAN 4910 Topics of Latin American Literature
TEAL 6020/7020 Foundations and Change in Early Childhood Education
THEA 3570 Historic Clothing (DHA)
WGS 2010 Women and Leadership
WGS 4900/6900 Directed Study: Introduction to Girls' Studies (Summer 2012)
WGS 4900/6900 Directed Study: The Culture and Politics of Motherhood (Fall 2012 Online)
WGS 4900/6900 Directed Study: Feminist Research Methods (Fall 2012)
WGS 4900/6900 Directed Study: Feminist Theories (Spring 2013)
* To qualify as a WGS elective, students must complete their course projects on a gender-related topic.
WGS-Approved Special Topics Courses Electives (topics determine whether the course is a WGS elective):
ANTH 4800 Special Topics: Anthropology of Women’s Health
BIOL 4750/6750 Special Topics: Women in Science
ENGL 3030 Perspectives in Literature (DHA)
ENGL/HIST 3070 Perspectives in Folklore (DHA)
ENGL 4360 Studies in Film: Genre and Gender in Hollywood
ENGL 5300 Literature, Arts, and Culture (CI)
ENGL 5320 Literature, Politics, and Society (CI)
ENGL 6330 Topics in Literary Studies: Gender-Focused Topic
ENVS 4950/6900 Special Topics: Gender and Environments
ENVS 4950/6900 Special Topics: Social Justice and Environments
GEOG 5900/6900: Special Topics: Gender-Focused Topic
PSY 1010 General Psychology (BSS) (with Kerry Jordan)
SPCH 5000 Studies in Speech Communication: Gender and Communication
Upcoming WGS Elective Courses:
ARTH 3610 Greek and Roman Art, Gender Focus (CI)
ARTH 3620 Byzantine Art, Gender Focus (DHA)
ARTH 3630 Medieval Art, Gender Focus (DHA)
ARTH 3720 Renaissance Art, Gender Focus (CI)
ARTH 3740 Modern Art
ARTH 3750 Contemporary Art
ARTH 3760 American Art
ARTH/RELS 4620 Art and Religion
ARTH 4710 Feminist Art (CI)
ARTH 3840 Race and Visual Culture (CI)
ARTH 4520 Discourses of Empire and Nation (CI)
HIST 4650 Women and Gender in the U.S. West
With pre-approval of the WGS director, as well as a signed contract with a WGS faculty member, other courses may be applied toward the certificate if at least 50 percent of the class material is directly related to gender issues or if students complete a gender-related project in order to earn 50 percent of their grade in that course.
